Shout out to everyone else who found this video after completing a ridiculously long project and stared at it like "I don't think im ever doing another mosaic piece" and then found hope after this video. Bless you Susan thank you so much for this life-changing technique ❤❤❤
You're very welcome, Sarah. Thank you so much for your comment. I enjoy sharing what I've learned (or invented) with others to help make crocheting easier for everyone! God bless you and may all your crochet projects turn out beautifully!
scrolling through the comments and majority being the same as me who only found this video AFTER finishing a painfully big mosaic project that destroyed them TT-TT MA'AM. You are a wonderful GIFT BY THE CROCHET GODS. I'm gonna watch every video in your channel before picking up my crochet hook because i know your videos are gonna teach me a few more things.
Thank you so much for your comment, Dominic! I'm sorry you didn't find my video BEFORE crocheting your painfully big mosaic project! But I'm glad that my video (and hopefully many more of my videos) can help you with your crochet projects to come! Happy crocheting to you now and always!
Thank you, Anne! Sometimes I think outside the box, but I usually live inside the box! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects! Happy crocheting to you!
You're very welcome, Von! Thank you for your kind words! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for many overlay mosaic crochet projects! Happy crocheting to you now and always!
@@TheCrochetArchitect ❤ I am new to crochet. My mom taught basics when I was a kid, but I never really picked it up. Not until a few years ago. I am home taking care of my mom now and wanted to pick up some crafting just to keep my mind active. So, I picked crochet back up. I worked through a couple of projects but the one pattern that just baked my noodle was the granny square. During the pandemic I wrestled with that darn pattern and finally got it! I started working on a coaster and it came out ok so just to make sure it was not a fluke, I made another and another and before I knew it, my coaster project has turned into a ...well it's probably a queen size afghan now ha ha. My husband is also the comic relief (sometimes)
Welcome to the wonderful world of crochet! I hope you enjoy it for many years. It's nice that you can take care of your mom and do some crochet at the same time. I miss my mom. She passed away 6 years ago. Enjoy every day that God gives you with your mom. They're gone way too soon. I've got a free pattern for a 3-round granny square on my website, in case you'd like to compare it with the one you've mastered! You can find it here: thecrochetarchitect.com/downloads/3-round-granny-square/. Happy crocheting to you, Sidney!
@@TheCrochetArchitect I am so sorry to hear of your mom's passing. I am appreciative of the time I have with her. Thank you, I am excited to try the mosaic pattern. The mass majority of my squares look the one on your website ..a few of them though...not so much ha ha It's infuriating because I didn't even realize the mistakes until I started putting border color on them and then I caught it. Oh well, that's how you learn.
This, madam, is just about the smartest thing I've seen for quite some time - and mind you, I've known how to crochet for more than 50 years by now! :) Thanks for taking your time to make an excellent video to demonstrate your brilliant solution
You're very welcome, Nina! I'm glad you like my video and I hope you'll be able to use this technique to eliminate the ends in your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects!
You're very welcome! I'm glad you like it and I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for many of your overlay mosaic crochet projects! Happy crocheting to you!
Welcome to my channel, Clara! I'm so glad this video was helpful for you! I hope you enjoy many more of my crochet videos and learn a lot from them to help save your life even more! Happy crocheting to you now and always!
I can see myself using this method for a smaller project. But for a larger blanket or something like that, I think I would end up using more yarn than I'd want by carrying it through each row. Thanks for sharing the idea!
You're very welcome! I love sharing what I've learned about crochet to help others! And I love not having all those ends in my Overlay Mosaic Crochet! Yes. This technique uses more yarn. However, if you typically crochet a double border on a blanket, you use more yarn for that. I think this technique would actually use less yarn than a double border does. And as you said, it would be great for smaller projects! I hope you enjoy using this technique for your smaller overlay mosaic crochet projects. Happy crocheting!
Welcome to my channel. All levels of crocheters and mosaic crocheters are welcome! I hope your mosaic crochet skills and knowledge improve through watching my videos!
WOW! YOU ARE ONE SMART WOMAN. IM JUST LEARNING MOSIAC CROCHET AND I WAS BOTHERED BY ALL THE ENDS. THEN YOY CAME ALONG AND SAVED THE DAY🤣 THANK YOU AND MANY BLESSINGS TO YOU.
Great idea! Wonderful solution to mosaic crochet ends. Also, "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" was one of my father's favorite movies, especially "stinking badges" line. Thanks for the humorous tribute!
I'm glad you liked my video and my husband's humorous tribute, Alfred! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for your overlay mosaic crochet projects.
YOU are my hero!!! Love the anchored double crochet, not only does it look so much better but I can now use more than 2 colors. I’m doing the happy dance 😁😁😁
I'm so glad that my Adc stitch could help you with your crochet projects, Rhaven! I hope you enjoy using it in many of your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects! Happy crocheting to you always!
Amazing method! Started my first mosaic crochet project today and was disappointed in how it was turning out with all the ends. Searched RUclips for an tailless mosaic method and found your video. Luckily I was only 8 rows into my project and could just restart it using your method. Thank you, the difference is huge! I’ll never not do it this way.
Getting ready to embark on my first mosaic project. It will be a huge blanket. So so so so glad i found your video before i started!! Thank you - it's genius💜
Hi Cheryl. I'm glad you found my video, too! Just make sure to adjust the carried yarn before starting each row. That way, it won't be too tight or too loose when you start each row. You won't need to work a double border on your huge blanket, saving yarn and time! Happy crocheting to you now and always!
You're very welcome, Anna! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for many of your overlay mosaic crochet projects. Happy crocheting to you now and always!
It's like overlay and tapestry crochet together! I love carrying yarn like that, because it's so much more secure, & does not show through. I never would've thought to do the first trick you showed with the yarn ball - genius! ...as is the technique you came up with for the anchored double crochet!
Yes it is like Tapestry Crochet and Overlay Mosaic Crochet put together! It'll only work when you use my Anchored dc, though. Otherwise the stitches behind regular dc wouldn't cover the carried yarn! I hope you enjoy using this COM technique in your Overlay Mosaic Crochet!
I wish I had found this video sooner! It would have saved me weeks of work. I was working on a patchwork blanket with several individual mosaics stitches together with the ends hidden on the backside. I thought I'd crochet a back panel to hide all the ends on the back, and once I finished, I realized it would be too heavy and it wouldn't be as functional. I spent so much time trying to figure out what I was going to do and trying to cover up all the ends. Had I known about this, my blanket would have looked so much neater. I'm so excited to try this with future mosaics! Thank you so much for sharing this technique! You are a gem! 💎
You're very welcome! Thank you for your kind words! I'm sorry that you didn't find my video sooner, too! But now you know how to do my COM technique on your future Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects! May all your crochet projects turn out great from here on out!
Wow that is just a stellar idea. I want to learn the mosaic patterns too. I think it is rich in texture and those ends don't even show if the alignment is done like you showed. Bravo for sharing extra yarn is worth the cost not to have to deal with all those ends! thank you so much for figuring it out for all of us crochet'ers. You are a Yarn send.
You're very welcome, Maxine! I'm glad you like my COM technique and I hope you thoroughly enjoy learning mosaic crochet! Happy crocheting to you now and always!
Hi Susan, I only came across your channel recently. It was the ADC you were showing, and after trying it Out, I love it.I now use it all the time. Now you are sharing another technique, thank you. Nice to see someone who holds their hook like me. Sandra
You're very welcome, Sandra! I'm glad you enjoy using my Adc! And I'm glad you hold your hook the "right" way!!! Just kidding! There are several "right" ways! Our hook hold is the knife hold. It's actually easier on the wrists than the pencil hold. I hope you enjoy my new Continuous Overlay Mosaic Crochet (COM) technique!
Thank you a hundred times over. I avoided mosaic because of all the ends. Your video changed my life. I am halfway done with a blanket and hardly any ends 🙂
You're very welcome! I'm so glad that my COM video was helpful for your in your Overlay Mosaic Crochet project! I didn't like all those ends, either! That's why I came up with this technique to eliminate almost all those pesky ends!!! Happy mosaic crocheting to you!
You're very welcome, Sheila! I'm glad you found my RUclips channel, too! I hope you learn many new things about crochet from many of my other videos to increase your crochet skills and knowledge. Happy crocheting to you now and always!
I have been watching mosaic crochet videos and was put off by the ends. When I mulled it over, I came up with the same technique but was not sure how it would work. Your video has answered all my questions, and I now feel confident to do it. For blankets, this is genius. Thank you so much!
You're very welcome, Jewelie! I LOVE using my COM technique! It works really well on scarves that are worked in short/narrow rows, too! I think it also helps give the blanket strength with the yarn that's carried across. And you'll save yourself a lot of time since you won't have to weave in all those pesky ends! Happy Mosaic Crocheting to you!
Despites the extra yarn that we have to use, this is just what I needed... I'm strugling with the end of the overlay mozaic croche!! Thanks for sharing!!
You're very welcome, Tatiana! The extra yarn used for the COM technique is offset by using less yarn on a double border, which isn't needed with my COM technique.
I'm not sure about genius, but now and then I come up with a good idea! I'm glad you like my COM technique and I hope you enjoy using it on many of your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects!
You're very welcome, Emily! This is one of my favorite Overlay Mosaic Crochet techniques, since it eliminates all those pesky ends and doesn't require a double border. I feel the little bit of extra yarn that's carried across is less than the amount of yarn that would be used in making the double border to hide the ends. Plus it saves the time and frustration of working the double border, too! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for your large project and for many other Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects. Happy crocheting to you now and always!
You're very welcome, Susan! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique on many of your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects! Don't forget to use my Adc stitch to eliminate the gaps on the back of the work and to hide the carried yarn, too. Happy crocheting to you now and forever!
Came across your video looking for patterns. When I was 6 my Grams taught me to crochet... when changing colors this is how she taught me to do it. She referred to it as a color switchback which her mother taught her to do. I’ve been doing it this way for 56 years now. It’s nice to finally know the name of this method. Thank you for posting this
You're very welcome! Thank you for your comment. However, I'm a little confused. Have you been carrying the unused color across the row from the end to the beginning to use it again at the beginning of the next row of that color in regular crochet projects, or in Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects? Or do you make your color changes the way I make them in my video #37 for changing colors when working 1-row stripes? I invented this method for changing colors in Overlay Mosaic Crochet a few years ago to avoid all the tails at the beginning and end of each row when doing Overlay Mosaic Crochet. I named my technique Continuous Overlay Mosaic (COM) Crochet just this year. I haven't seen anyone use this technique for regular crochet (not Overlay Mosaic Crochet) in the 45+ years I've been crocheting and it's not in any crochet books that I have (and I have a lot of crochet books!). I look forward to your reply so I can learn more! What country are you from? I'm in the US. I know that many other countries have fabulous, creative crochet skills and techniques!
@@TheCrochetArchitect My Grams taught me to do it when doing a two color yarn mosaic set of crocheted Apache tears pot holders for my moms birthday. She ran the thread back (She called it a color switchback) and then she crocheted over it so it was a constant front side crochet without thread hanging. Her mom (Ma Julie) taught her to do it and Grams taught me. She said that the only time to cut the yarn each time was when tassels were needed. She also did it when she made simple single or double crochet blankets or in her crocheted cotton thread curtains. Ma Julie taught all 5 of her girls to do it. My cousin Cindy and I are the only ones left that crochet in the family and we both do it. I hope this comment better explained my first comment. I’m sorry I’m still recovering from 6 weeks of Covid 19 and I’m sorry my comment was confusing.
There's no need to apologize. I hope you make a full recovery from COVID-19. Thanks for the clarification. I've never run across anyone who does this. I thought I was the only one! Your Grams sounds like a wonderful, creative lady!
Wow! I LOVE your Wedding Ring blanket!!! My grandmother quilted (all by hand, no sewing machine at all) and her favorite pattern was Wedding Ring & Double wedding ring, and I have always thought about doing a crochet version, but you already have. Thank You, I will check out your pattern.
You're very welcome! I've always admired the Wedding Ring quilt pattern, too. The lamp shades in my master bedroom were the inspiration for this mosaic blanket pattern. If you decide to crochet this blanket, I'd love to see your finished blanket. Happy crocheting!
I am shocked! This is fantastic! Especially for when I make my swatches and I don't want to cut the yarn. I like to reuse the yarn from my swatches lol
I'm glad you like my COM technique, Tally! I use it for blankets and scarves so I don't need to work a double border, which uses as much or more yarn than carrying the yarn uses. And of course it works great for swatches, too, so you can reuse the yarn! Happy crocheting to you!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! Need to work with one color on just the front side of an afghan and I Do Not Want Fringe which is how the pattern is written. It's only taken three hours to find your wonderful video today on how to do this technique. Definitely well worth the time. I will now be looking through your patterns and videos! Thank you!!!
You're very, very welcome, Patti! I'm glad you found my COM video and I hope you enjoy using this technique for all your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects! I hope you enjoy my other videos and patterns. Happy Crocheting to you and Happy New Year!
You are awesome!!! I am new to mosaic crochet after crocheting 60+ years. Love it! Am on my third in-the-round Apache Tears zippered purse. I didn't like how much thicker the worked over color change tails made that part of the piece. My solution on this biggest purse is to make the tails long enough so that the two tails meet! I tie a tight double knot to keep the tails from pulling loose later. Problem solved! I KNOW I would not have thought to apply that method to a flat piece! Now I will, thanks very much to your inventive mind and patient, concise teaching! I am your newest subscriber!
You're very welcome, Rosemary! I'm so glad that my COM technique will be useful to you! Thanks for subscribing to my channel. I'll have new videos coming very soon!
Thanks, Bee! Please let me know how you like my Continuous Overlay Mosaic Crochet technique! My hubby is happy that someone noticed him (the Swatches Man)!
I just learned how to mosaic crochet and was already dreading doing a full-sized project because of all of those ends... So glad I found your video!! 😊🥰
I just found your channel today. I am so excited at the titles of some of your videos. I have been crocheting for over 50 years. Lately I was thinking about trying my hand at Mosaic Crochet but was turned off by all those ends to weave in. I am now looking forward to giving it a try. I hope you will consider doing some videos on crochet tops. Your crochet blouse is beautiful.
I'm glad you found my RUclips channel, too! I don't like all the ends on Overlay Mosaic Crochet either! That's why I invented my COM technique. The top I'm wearing in this video is from a Japanese or Chinese crochet book (I can't remember which one!). I'd love to do a video on crochet tops, but I have to be careful with copyright laws.
Thank you, Helen! I'm glad you think so! Once in a while I come up with a good technique (it doesn't happen very often, though) and I'm glad I can share it with others! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique! Happy crocheting to you!
Wow! I love the anchored dc. I’ve never seen that before. This video has taught me two new skills. I wonder how this will work with center-out squares.
I'm glad you've learned some new skills, Cathy. The Adc should work fine with mosaic squares worked in the round. I don't think you'd need to carry the unused yarn and work over it, though, because it's not finished off at the end of the rounds. You simply change colors in the last stitch of the round (or in the joining slip stitch) and work the next round with the other color. I hope this helps. Happy crocheting to you!
I just knew there had to be a better way. Truly, thank you so so much. I have a blanket that I didnt finish because of the ends. My first big project with the mosiac pattern and I just gave up on it. this is going to make me want to complete my work. again, thank you!
You're very welcome! I'm so glad that my COM technique will have you enjoying mosaic crochet and that you'll be able to complete your blanket without having all those extra ends!
Hi, love to do mosaic crochet and your videos. I have made a large blanket with one row using numerous colors of left over yarn. I use the overlay method but without having to lay the yarn right across the whole row, I overlay a 4 inch length of yarn at each end and crochet over or weave it in. great way of using up small amounts of yarn.
That sounds like a great way to hide your ends, Michelle! Do the right and left edges get elongated with that many ends covered up in the first/last 4 inches and not the center of the rows?
I have never seen this method before, and I think it’s genius. I will try this for sure on a smaller project like a scarf. I have subscribed and am looking forward to more gems from you. Thank you!
Thank you for taking the time to make this video! I’m a beginner, working on expanding into new techniques and your instructions were very easy to follow. This no ends approach feels like a huge upgrade for mosaic patterns. :)
Absolutely fabulous technique. I need to practise this technique to get it into my brain. But I can see its purpose and bets the thousand or ends at the end. But I guess I do like the purpose of a double border but a double border with no ends would be perfect too! Thank you for sharing. Have saved it to try out the swatch.💖💖
I'm so glad you like my COM technique, Julie! I hope you enjoy using it on your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects. You can probably skip the back border of the double border when you use my COM technique, since you won't have ends to cover up. Happy crocheting to you!
You're very welcome, Cathy! I'm so glad I can share crochet tips with others through my RUclips videos! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for many years!
I did a variation on this idea on my first mosaic crochet project yesterday, i hate weaving ends in and it's prevented me from finishing many projects. So i worked a tiny purse in the round, crocheted a decorative strap, and worked the cover flap almost identically to this. Four ends for the whole thing. I've done virtually no color work in the twenty years I've crocheted, but this technique makes it attainable.
Thanks for sharing this, Beth! I'm with you on weaving in ends! I'd much rather work Overlay Mosaic Crochet with my COM technique than weave in tons of ends or work a double border!
@@TheCrochetArchitect it looks a lot better too, I think, and it's a lot more secure. I have four little ones and good solid, simple finishing techniques are absolutely essential in my household, so I don't have extra mending demands on top of finishing! The body of a project is fun, to do and to watch, but my girls who are learning to crochet and knit don't have enough patience just to watch me weave in more than a few ends! Most of their doll clothes are hairy scary🤣
It sounds like you have your hands busy! Good for you teaching your girls to crochet and knit! We need to teach the next generation so these fabulous crafts don't die out!
I'm so glad you found my video and I'm glad you will be using my COM technique for your mosaic crochet projects. It works great! And it uses less yarn than working a double border! Happy crocheting to you now and always!
Shout out to everyone else who found this video after completing a ridiculously long project and stared at it like "I don't think im ever doing another mosaic piece" and then found hope after this video.
Bless you Susan thank you so much for this life-changing technique ❤❤❤
You're very welcome, Sarah. Thank you so much for your comment. I enjoy sharing what I've learned (or invented) with others to help make crocheting easier for everyone! God bless you and may all your crochet projects turn out beautifully!
Swatches…SWATCHES!!! We don’t need no stinking swatches….too funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for the humour and the ingenious idea 💡
You're very welcome, Monica! I'm glad you enjoyed the video and my husband's humor! He keeps me on my toes!
scrolling through the comments and majority being the same as me who only found this video AFTER finishing a painfully big mosaic project that destroyed them
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MA'AM. You are a wonderful GIFT BY THE CROCHET GODS. I'm gonna watch every video in your channel before picking up my crochet hook because i know your videos are gonna teach me a few more things.
Thank you so much for your comment, Dominic! I'm sorry you didn't find my video BEFORE crocheting your painfully big mosaic project! But I'm glad that my video (and hopefully many more of my videos) can help you with your crochet projects to come! Happy crocheting to you now and always!
You know...the timing of finding this video AFTER I finished a king sized mosaic bed spread is just impeccable timing 😭 so...many...ends....
I'm so sorry that you didn't find my video until now! I hope your other Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects turn out much easier with my COM technique!
Thank you for the tutorial this is genius. Love the guy that popped up we don’t need no stinking swatches. 😂😂😂😂
You're very welcome! I'm glad you liked the tutorial and my husband's pop up performance! Happy crocheting to you!
You are wicked smart
Thank you, Anne! Sometimes I think outside the box, but I usually live inside the box! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects! Happy crocheting to you!
You are a wonderful teacher. Explaining everything and it's easy to understand. Thank you
You're very welcome, Von! Thank you for your kind words! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for many overlay mosaic crochet projects! Happy crocheting to you now and always!
That is the best incorporation of a partner into a crochet channel I have ever seen. ♥️
Thanks, Lenny! We had fun with his "cameo" appearance! He's the funny one and I'm the serious one! Happy crocheting to you!
"we don't need no stinking swatches" ha ha I just subscribed I love your teaching approach and humor. Keeps it light and engaging.
Thanks so much for subscribing, Sidney! My husband is the humorous one. I'm just the crochet talent! I couldn't do these videos without him!
@@TheCrochetArchitect ❤ I am new to crochet. My mom taught basics when I was a kid, but I never really picked it up. Not until a few years ago. I am home taking care of my mom now and wanted to pick up some crafting just to keep my mind active. So, I picked crochet back up. I worked through a couple of projects but the one pattern that just baked my noodle was the granny square. During the pandemic I wrestled with that darn pattern and finally got it! I started working on a coaster and it came out ok so just to make sure it was not a fluke, I made another and another and before I knew it, my coaster project has turned into a ...well it's probably a queen size afghan now ha ha. My husband is also the comic relief (sometimes)
Welcome to the wonderful world of crochet! I hope you enjoy it for many years. It's nice that you can take care of your mom and do some crochet at the same time. I miss my mom. She passed away 6 years ago. Enjoy every day that God gives you with your mom. They're gone way too soon.
I've got a free pattern for a 3-round granny square on my website, in case you'd like to compare it with the one you've mastered! You can find it here: thecrochetarchitect.com/downloads/3-round-granny-square/.
Happy crocheting to you, Sidney!
@@TheCrochetArchitect I am so sorry to hear of your mom's passing. I am appreciative of the time I have with her. Thank you, I am excited to try the mosaic pattern. The mass majority of my squares look the one on your website ..a few of them though...not so much ha ha It's infuriating because I didn't even realize the mistakes until I started putting border color on them and then I caught it. Oh well, that's how you learn.
This, madam, is just about the smartest thing I've seen for quite some time - and mind you, I've known how to crochet for more than 50 years by now! :) Thanks for taking your time to make an excellent video to demonstrate your brilliant solution
You're very welcome, Nina! I'm glad you like my video and I hope you'll be able to use this technique to eliminate the ends in your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects!
You are freaking brilliant!!! Thank you SO MUCH!! ❤❤❤❤❤
You're very welcome! I'm glad you like it and I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for many of your overlay mosaic crochet projects! Happy crocheting to you!
Love the COM technique, thank you for sharing. Got a good chuckle at Mr. Guy popping up to say "we don't need no stinking swatches" haha! God bless.
You're very welcome, Joy! I'm glad you enjoyed the Swatches man and my COM technique!
I love this! The blanket will also be thicker and warmer!
Yes it will! Happy crocheting to you!
What a kind person you are and so so smart 💯
Thank you for your kind words, Teri! Happy crocheting to you now and always!
Holy smokes, this is GENIUS!
I'm glad you like it! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects!
You are a genius and a lifesaver!!! Im SO HAPPY i found your channel!!
Welcome to my channel, Clara! I'm so glad this video was helpful for you! I hope you enjoy many more of my crochet videos and learn a lot from them to help save your life even more! Happy crocheting to you now and always!
I can see myself using this method for a smaller project. But for a larger blanket or something like that, I think I would end up using more yarn than I'd want by carrying it through each row. Thanks for sharing the idea!
You're very welcome! I love sharing what I've learned about crochet to help others! And I love not having all those ends in my Overlay Mosaic Crochet!
Yes. This technique uses more yarn. However, if you typically crochet a double border on a blanket, you use more yarn for that. I think this technique would actually use less yarn than a double border does. And as you said, it would be great for smaller projects!
I hope you enjoy using this technique for your smaller overlay mosaic crochet projects. Happy crocheting!
@@TheCrochetArchitect I hadn't thought about using the same amount or less yarn than the double border. Great point! ❤️
@@TheCrochetArchitect Great point with the double border. You have made me do some thinking. I'm a beginner Mosaic Crochetier.
Welcome to my channel. All levels of crocheters and mosaic crocheters are welcome! I hope your mosaic crochet skills and knowledge improve through watching my videos!
I like the idea. I’m thinking a blanket would be heavier. Some people love heavy blankets.
WOW! YOU ARE ONE SMART WOMAN.
IM JUST LEARNING MOSIAC CROCHET AND I WAS BOTHERED BY ALL THE ENDS. THEN YOY CAME ALONG AND SAVED THE DAY🤣
THANK YOU AND MANY BLESSINGS TO YOU.
You're very welcome, Savana! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique on all your mosaic crochet projects. Many blessings to you, too!
Great idea! Wonderful solution to mosaic crochet ends. Also, "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" was one of my father's favorite movies, especially "stinking badges" line. Thanks for the humorous tribute!
I'm glad you liked my video and my husband's humorous tribute, Alfred! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for your overlay mosaic crochet projects.
YOU are my hero!!! Love the anchored double crochet, not only does it look so much better but I can now use more than 2 colors. I’m doing the happy dance 😁😁😁
I'm so glad that my Adc stitch could help you with your crochet projects, Rhaven! I hope you enjoy using it in many of your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects! Happy crocheting to you always!
This was the answer to my prayer. Thanks for sharing.
You're very welcome! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique on all your overlay mosaic crochet projects! God bless you!
Amazing method! Started my first mosaic crochet project today and was disappointed in how it was turning out with all the ends. Searched RUclips for an tailless mosaic method and found your video. Luckily I was only 8 rows into my project and could just restart it using your method. Thank you, the difference is huge! I’ll never not do it this way.
You're very welcome! I'm glad you found my video so you can eliminate all those ends in your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects! Happy crocheting to you!
I'm so grateful to you for teaching me this, I'm glad I found this as a beginner, thank you so much!
You're very welcome! Welcome to the wonderful world of crochet!
Getting ready to embark on my first mosaic project. It will be a huge blanket. So so so so glad i found your video before i started!! Thank you - it's genius💜
Hi Cheryl. I'm glad you found my video, too! Just make sure to adjust the carried yarn before starting each row. That way, it won't be too tight or too loose when you start each row. You won't need to work a double border on your huge blanket, saving yarn and time! Happy crocheting to you now and always!
This is a fabulous solution, thank you!!!
You're very welcome, Anna! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for many of your overlay mosaic crochet projects.
Happy crocheting to you now and always!
It's like overlay and tapestry crochet together! I love carrying yarn like that, because it's so much more secure, & does not show through. I never would've thought to do the first trick you showed with the yarn ball - genius! ...as is the technique you came up with for the anchored double crochet!
Yes it is like Tapestry Crochet and Overlay Mosaic Crochet put together! It'll only work when you use my Anchored dc, though. Otherwise the stitches behind regular dc wouldn't cover the carried yarn! I hope you enjoy using this COM technique in your Overlay Mosaic Crochet!
@@TheCrochetArchitect Yes, Thank you so much, I greatly appreciate your videos!
You're very welcome! I'm glad you like my videos and you're learning something new!
I wish I had found this video sooner! It would have saved me weeks of work. I was working on a patchwork blanket with several individual mosaics stitches together with the ends hidden on the backside. I thought I'd crochet a back panel to hide all the ends on the back, and once I finished, I realized it would be too heavy and it wouldn't be as functional. I spent so much time trying to figure out what I was going to do and trying to cover up all the ends. Had I known about this, my blanket would have looked so much neater. I'm so excited to try this with future mosaics! Thank you so much for sharing this technique! You are a gem! 💎
You're very welcome! Thank you for your kind words! I'm sorry that you didn't find my video sooner, too! But now you know how to do my COM technique on your future Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects! May all your crochet projects turn out great from here on out!
Wow! This is gamechanging! I can’t wait to try it! I hate all those pesky ends! Awesome!
I'm glad you like it, Linette! And I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for many of your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects! Happy crocheting to you!
The begining of the video is so funny....tank you for sharing. God bless you❤😍
I'm glad you enjoyed the video, Andone! God bless you, too.
I want to try this COM method with the moss stitch. ❤️ I see beautiful things in the future! Thank you!
That sounds very interesting! Would you be working all right side rows in moss stitch?
Wow that is just a stellar idea. I want to learn the mosaic patterns too. I think it is rich in texture and those ends don't even show if the alignment is done like you showed. Bravo for sharing extra yarn is worth the cost not to have to deal with all those ends! thank you so much for figuring it out for all of us crochet'ers. You are a Yarn send.
You're very welcome, Maxine! I'm glad you like my COM technique and I hope you thoroughly enjoy learning mosaic crochet! Happy crocheting to you now and always!
Hi Susan, I only came across your channel recently. It was the ADC you were showing, and after trying it
Out, I love it.I now use it all the time. Now you are sharing another technique, thank you.
Nice to see someone who holds their hook like me.
Sandra
You're very welcome, Sandra! I'm glad you enjoy using my Adc! And I'm glad you hold your hook the "right" way!!! Just kidding! There are several "right" ways! Our hook hold is the knife hold. It's actually easier on the wrists than the pencil hold. I hope you enjoy my new Continuous Overlay Mosaic Crochet (COM) technique!
I m here... now i found it thank you my friend and thank you for your kindness and patience
You're very welcome, Silvia! I hope you enjoy crocheting with my COM technique!
Thank you a hundred times over. I avoided mosaic because of all the ends. Your video changed my life. I am halfway done with a blanket and hardly any ends 🙂
You're very welcome! I'm so glad that my COM video was helpful for your in your Overlay Mosaic Crochet project! I didn't like all those ends, either! That's why I came up with this technique to eliminate almost all those pesky ends!!! Happy mosaic crocheting to you!
I'm so glad I found you! Thanks.
You're very welcome, Sheila! I'm glad you found my RUclips channel, too! I hope you learn many new things about crochet from many of my other videos to increase your crochet skills and knowledge. Happy crocheting to you now and always!
You are so sweet explaining this technique, thanks for sharing ❣️
You're very welcome, Estrela! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique and also my Adc (anchored dc) stitch for your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects!
I have been watching mosaic crochet videos and was put off by the ends. When I mulled it over, I came up with the same technique but was not sure how it would work. Your video has answered all my questions, and I now feel confident to do it. For blankets, this is genius. Thank you so much!
You're very welcome, Jewelie! I LOVE using my COM technique! It works really well on scarves that are worked in short/narrow rows, too! I think it also helps give the blanket strength with the yarn that's carried across. And you'll save yourself a lot of time since you won't have to weave in all those pesky ends! Happy Mosaic Crocheting to you!
Despites the extra yarn that we have to use, this is just what I needed... I'm strugling with the end of the overlay mozaic croche!! Thanks for sharing!!
You're very welcome, Tatiana! The extra yarn used for the COM technique is offset by using less yarn on a double border, which isn't needed with my COM technique.
I always knew you were a genius! Thank you for such a well explained tutorial. This is a game changer!!!
I'm not sure about genius, but now and then I come up with a good idea! I'm glad you like my COM technique and I hope you enjoy using it on many of your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects!
This is absolutely genius and a game changer. Thank you so much for sharing!!!!!
You're very welcome, Emily! This is one of my favorite Overlay Mosaic Crochet techniques, since it eliminates all those pesky ends and doesn't require a double border. I feel the little bit of extra yarn that's carried across is less than the amount of yarn that would be used in making the double border to hide the ends. Plus it saves the time and frustration of working the double border, too! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for your large project and for many other Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects. Happy crocheting to you now and always!
Wowwee! This is an Awesome “trick” for mosaic crochet! Thank You Sooo Much!
You're very welcome, Susan! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique on many of your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects! Don't forget to use my Adc stitch to eliminate the gaps on the back of the work and to hide the carried yarn, too. Happy crocheting to you now and forever!
Came across your video looking for patterns. When I was 6 my Grams taught me to crochet... when changing colors this is how she taught me to do it. She referred to it as a color switchback which her mother taught her to do. I’ve been doing it this way for 56 years now. It’s nice to finally know the name of this method. Thank you for posting this
You're very welcome! Thank you for your comment. However, I'm a little confused. Have you been carrying the unused color across the row from the end to the beginning to use it again at the beginning of the next row of that color in regular crochet projects, or in Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects? Or do you make your color changes the way I make them in my video #37 for changing colors when working 1-row stripes? I invented this method for changing colors in Overlay Mosaic Crochet a few years ago to avoid all the tails at the beginning and end of each row when doing Overlay Mosaic Crochet. I named my technique Continuous Overlay Mosaic (COM) Crochet just this year. I haven't seen anyone use this technique for regular crochet (not Overlay Mosaic Crochet) in the 45+ years I've been crocheting and it's not in any crochet books that I have (and I have a lot of crochet books!).
I look forward to your reply so I can learn more! What country are you from? I'm in the US. I know that many other countries have fabulous, creative crochet skills and techniques!
@@TheCrochetArchitect My Grams taught me to do it when doing a two color yarn mosaic set of crocheted Apache tears pot holders for my moms birthday. She ran the thread back (She called it a color switchback) and then she crocheted over it so it was a constant front side crochet without thread hanging. Her mom (Ma Julie) taught her to do it and Grams taught me. She said that the only time to cut the yarn each time was when tassels were needed. She also did it when she made simple single or double crochet blankets or in her crocheted cotton thread curtains. Ma Julie taught all 5 of her girls to do it. My cousin Cindy and I are the only ones left that crochet in the family and we both do it.
I hope this comment better explained my first comment. I’m sorry I’m still recovering from 6 weeks of Covid 19 and I’m sorry my comment was confusing.
@@TheCrochetArchitect My family came here to America from Ireland in 1887. It was Ma Julie’s Family.
There's no need to apologize. I hope you make a full recovery from COVID-19. Thanks for the clarification. I've never run across anyone who does this. I thought I was the only one! Your Grams sounds like a wonderful, creative lady!
My family came from Ireland in the 1800's, too! They went to Canada, though.
Your sweater looks fantastic! I'd like to see more of it ad how its made.
Thank you. I'll consider doing a video and/or blog post about the sweater I wore!
Wow! I LOVE your Wedding Ring blanket!!! My grandmother quilted (all by hand, no sewing machine at all) and her favorite pattern was Wedding Ring & Double wedding ring, and I have always thought about doing a crochet version, but you already have. Thank You, I will check out your pattern.
You're very welcome! I've always admired the Wedding Ring quilt pattern, too. The lamp shades in my master bedroom were the inspiration for this mosaic blanket pattern. If you decide to crochet this blanket, I'd love to see your finished blanket. Happy crocheting!
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH, this saved my life fr
You're very welcome! I'm glad I could help you with my COM technique!
This is pure genius in its simplicity! Thank you for sharing :)
You're very welcome! I'm glad you like my COM technique!
You are brilliant¡¡ thank you so much for teaching me¡¡ a big hug from Chile
You're very welcome, Jessica! I'm glad you like my COM technique and I hope you enjoy using it often. Happy crocheting to you!
@@TheCrochetArchitect I am doing a mosaic crochet now, thanks again
I am shocked! This is fantastic! Especially for when I make my swatches and I don't want to cut the yarn. I like to reuse the yarn from my swatches lol
I'm glad you like my COM technique, Tally! I use it for blankets and scarves so I don't need to work a double border, which uses as much or more yarn than carrying the yarn uses. And of course it works great for swatches, too, so you can reuse the yarn! Happy crocheting to you!
I have been wondering about this for awhile now. I think you have a brilliant technique. Can't wait to try it!
Thank you very much, Debb! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for your overlay mosaic crochet projects!
Absolutely. Genius!! Thank you so much!!
You're very welcome, Tricia! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects. Happy crocheting to you!
Amazing! ❤️🧶 Thank you for this tutorial! ❤️
You're very welcome, Lisa! I'm glad you like it! Happy Mosaic Crocheting to you!
So so helpful. Thank you so much UK
You're very welcome, Jackson! Happy crocheting to you!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! Need to work with one color on just the front side of an afghan and I Do Not Want Fringe which is how the pattern is written. It's only taken three hours to find your wonderful video today on how to do this technique. Definitely well worth the time.
I will now be looking through your patterns and videos! Thank you!!!
You're very, very welcome, Patti! I'm glad you found my COM video and I hope you enjoy using this technique for all your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects! I hope you enjoy my other videos and patterns. Happy Crocheting to you and Happy New Year!
You are awesome!!! I am new to mosaic crochet after crocheting 60+ years. Love it! Am on my third in-the-round Apache Tears zippered purse. I didn't like how much thicker the worked over color change tails made that part of the piece. My solution on this biggest purse is to make the tails long enough so that the two tails meet! I tie a tight double knot to keep the tails from pulling loose later. Problem solved! I KNOW I would not have thought to apply that method to a flat piece! Now I will, thanks very much to your inventive mind and patient, concise teaching! I am your newest subscriber!
You're very welcome, Rosemary! I'm so glad that my COM technique will be useful to you! Thanks for subscribing to my channel. I'll have new videos coming very soon!
LOVE!!! the swatches man! the technique is awesome, can't wait to try it out!
Thanks, Bee! Please let me know how you like my Continuous Overlay Mosaic Crochet technique! My hubby is happy that someone noticed him (the Swatches Man)!
@@TheCrochetArchitect Wash those swatches and they won't be stinkin! :-) :-) :-)
Great technique!
Thanks! I'd better get my swatches washed quickly so the stink doesn't spread to the whole house! Ha! Thanks for the laugh!
I just learned how to mosaic crochet and was already dreading doing a full-sized project because of all of those ends... So glad I found your video!! 😊🥰
Welcome to the wonderful world of Mosaic Crochet!
@@TheCrochetArchitect Thank you, so much! I also recently learned how to duplicate stitch in my knitting, so I'm just learning all the things! 🥰
Wow this is amazing. I’m a beginner and you’ve made this sooooo easy. A big thank you
You're very welcome, Karin! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique. Welcome to the wonderful world of crochet!
Thank you so much for the video. I had been wondering if it was possible to do overlay without the ends now I know that it most definitely is.
You're very welcome, Vikki! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique on your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects!
Very nice technique impressed. Will try it
Thank you, Sanju! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for many of your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects!
I’m impressed with this method and will try it sometime.
Thank you, Patricia. Please let me know if you have any questions when you try my COM technique!
This is GENIUS!!
Thank you, Karen! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects! Happy crocheting to you!
Thank you so much. You are a gem.
You're very welcome! Happy Continuous Overlay Mosaic Crocheting to you!
I just found your channel today. I am so excited at the titles of some of your videos. I have been crocheting for over 50 years. Lately I was thinking about trying my hand at Mosaic Crochet but was turned off by all those ends to weave in. I am now looking forward to giving it a try.
I hope you will consider doing some videos on crochet tops. Your crochet blouse is beautiful.
I'm glad you found my RUclips channel, too! I don't like all the ends on Overlay Mosaic Crochet either! That's why I invented my COM technique.
The top I'm wearing in this video is from a Japanese or Chinese crochet book (I can't remember which one!). I'd love to do a video on crochet tops, but I have to be careful with copyright laws.
I am going to try this with a king size blanket I am about to start. Thank you
You're very welcome, Scarlett. I hope you enjoy using my COM technique and I hope your king size blanket turns out beautiful! Happy crocheting to you!
thanks a lot for the tutorial!
You're very welcome, Nadia! Happy crocheting to you!
Omg thats so clever. Thank you ❤
You're very welcome! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects! Happy crocheting to you!
OMW this is absolutely GENIUS! I'm pretty new to mosaic crochet, but I will definitely be using this in my upcoming projects. Thank You!
You're very welcome! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique!
You are a genius!
Thank you, Helen! I'm glad you think so! Once in a while I come up with a good technique (it doesn't happen very often, though) and I'm glad I can share it with others! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique! Happy crocheting to you!
Wow! I love the anchored dc. I’ve never seen that before. This video has taught me two new skills. I wonder how this will work with center-out squares.
I'm glad you've learned some new skills, Cathy. The Adc should work fine with mosaic squares worked in the round. I don't think you'd need to carry the unused yarn and work over it, though, because it's not finished off at the end of the rounds. You simply change colors in the last stitch of the round (or in the joining slip stitch) and work the next round with the other color. I hope this helps.
Happy crocheting to you!
Thank you so much this is soooo helpful
You're very welcome! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects! Happy crocheting to you!
I just knew there had to be a better way. Truly, thank you so so much. I have a blanket that I didnt finish because of the ends. My first big project with the mosiac pattern and I just gave up on it. this is going to make me want to complete my work. again, thank you!
You're very welcome! I'm so glad that my COM technique will have you enjoying mosaic crochet and that you'll be able to complete your blanket without having all those extra ends!
Hi, love to do mosaic crochet and your videos. I have made a large blanket with one row using numerous colors of left over yarn. I use the overlay method but without having to lay the yarn right across the whole row, I overlay a 4 inch length of yarn at each end and crochet over or weave it in. great way of using up small amounts of yarn.
That sounds like a great way to hide your ends, Michelle! Do the right and left edges get elongated with that many ends covered up in the first/last 4 inches and not the center of the rows?
This is awesome. Thank You.
You're very welcome, Rovilla! Happy crocheting to you!
I love your tutorial, I think I will give it a try. Thanks for explaining it so easily.
You're very welcome! Please let me know if you have any questions about it when you're trying it out!
Very welldone
Thank you very much! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique!
Very clever; thanks for sharing your genius!
You're very welcome, Roberta! I'm glad you like it! Happy crocheting to you now and always!
I have never seen this method before, and I think it’s genius. I will try this for sure on a smaller project like a scarf. I have subscribed and am looking forward to more gems from you. Thank you!
You're very welcome! I'm glad you like my COM technique. Thanks for subscribing. I hope you enjoy more of my videos and learn a lot!
This is amazing...thank you madam for the smartest technique..
You're very welcome! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for all your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects!
Thank you for taking the time to make this video! I’m a beginner, working on expanding into new techniques and your instructions were very easy to follow. This no ends approach feels like a huge upgrade for mosaic patterns. :)
You're very welcome! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique and my Anchored dc (Adc) stitch for your overlay mosaic crochet projects!
Thank you so much for this. I've wanted to try mosaic but because of all the weaving in of end I haven't now I will give it a try
You're very welcome, Terrill! I hope you enjoy mosaic crochet as much as I do! Happy crocheting!
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial.very easy to follow and a very much needed tutorial.
You're very welcome, Daisy! I'm glad it's helpful for you!
Great video, love the technique.
Thanks! Glad you like it! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
You're very welcome, Faith! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for your overlay mosaic crochet projects!
@@TheCrochetArchitect I've got my yarn and will be LEARNING it today, thanks to you. GOD bless your hands and protect your soul.
Thank you very much, Faith! God bless you and your crochet projects! Please let me know if you have any questions about my COM technique.
Thankyou so much I cant wait to start
You're very welcome! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique on your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects!
Thank you, This is genius!
You're very welcome, Teri! I'm glad you like my COM technique and I hope it helps you with your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects!
Absolutely fabulous technique. I need to practise this technique to get it into my brain. But I can see its purpose and bets the thousand or ends at the end. But I guess I do like the purpose of a double border but a double border with no ends would be perfect too! Thank you for sharing. Have saved it to try out the swatch.💖💖
I'm so glad you like my COM technique, Julie! I hope you enjoy using it on your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects. You can probably skip the back border of the double border when you use my COM technique, since you won't have ends to cover up. Happy crocheting to you!
Very clear and well explained..thank you for your efforts 😊
You're very welcome, Jackie! I'm glad you like it! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects.
This is genius! Thank you!
You're very welcome, Debora! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique on many of your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects!
Love both of your blankets ♥️♥️
Thank you! They were both lots of fun to design and crochet!
Brilliant thank you this is amazing.
You're very welcome, Denise! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique!
Thank you kindly for all the effort you put into this video and sharing your tips, well done.
You're very welcome, Cathy! I'm so glad I can share crochet tips with others through my RUclips videos! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for many years!
Love this technique...thanks for sharing!!
You're very welcome! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for your overlay mosaic crochet projects!
Thank you
You're very welcome, Neelam! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for many of your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects. Happy crocheting to you!
I did a variation on this idea on my first mosaic crochet project yesterday, i hate weaving ends in and it's prevented me from finishing many projects. So i worked a tiny purse in the round, crocheted a decorative strap, and worked the cover flap almost identically to this. Four ends for the whole thing. I've done virtually no color work in the twenty years I've crocheted, but this technique makes it attainable.
Thanks for sharing this, Beth! I'm with you on weaving in ends! I'd much rather work Overlay Mosaic Crochet with my COM technique than weave in tons of ends or work a double border!
@@TheCrochetArchitect it looks a lot better too, I think, and it's a lot more secure. I have four little ones and good solid, simple finishing techniques are absolutely essential in my household, so I don't have extra mending demands on top of finishing! The body of a project is fun, to do and to watch, but my girls who are learning to crochet and knit don't have enough patience just to watch me weave in more than a few ends! Most of their doll clothes are hairy scary🤣
It sounds like you have your hands busy! Good for you teaching your girls to crochet and knit! We need to teach the next generation so these fabulous crafts don't die out!
Thank you for this. Just found your channel, have subscribed before your comedy partner popped up 😊😊
Thank you for subscribing! I'm glad you like my comedy sidekick/partner/husband! He keeps life interesting!!!
what a great idea!!
Thanks, Ruth. I'm glad you think so! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique for your Overlay Mosaic Crochet projects. Happy crocheting to you!
Thank you for this video!
You're very welcome, Barbara! I hope you enjoy using my COM technique!
This is fabulous.I will definitely use this method because my heart hurts every time I cut my beautiful yarn 😅
I'm so glad you found my video and I'm glad you will be using my COM technique for your mosaic crochet projects. It works great! And it uses less yarn than working a double border! Happy crocheting to you now and always!
Nice method
Thanks! I hope you enjoy using it!
Wow and clever! I just had to subscribe thank you
You're welcome, Trish! Thank you for subscribing!